On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 18:26 -0700, Frank K wrote: > [...] > Rather than ask for an enhancement, I represent too small a group of users to > be catered to! Men will walk on Mars before I have access to anything but > dial-up here. My friends in town with DSL quickly forget what it's like to > have a 2MB "plug" in the message stream. > > Dial-up is too unreliable to deal with email online, so messages have to be > downloaded sequentially. Once I had a technical career, so I remember how the > project leader choses the feature list. It's all a matter of tradeoffs!
I agree actually. My DSL line is only 1Mbps and I definitely notice when some idiot sends a huge PowerPoint attachment that I almost certainly am not going to read. Judicious use of Ctrl-M (View->Show Message Preview) can sometimes help, but you need to be on your toes. > One feature that would merit an enhancement request in my opinion leaves me > uncertain regarding who to ask it of. Only Microsoft Outlook allows the use > of a word processor (Word) to function as it's email composer. OOwriter is a > great word processor that can now send it's documents as email attachments > > Will OpenOffice evolve their own email client, or would evolution be > interested in developing a word processor interface? Even if such development > happened before men walk on Mars, I'll need that size threshold! Two points here: 1) Given your desire for more bandwidth efficiency, I'd have thought it somewhat counterproductive to ask for a word processor as composer. If your message is complex enough for a word processor, use a word processor and attach the document. If it's not, use plain text and save everyone a lot of pain. 2) Despite the above, there have been calls for Evo to allow "composer hooks", so an Emacs fan for example can use Emacs and a Vi fan can use Vi. There's been some movement on this but I couldn't say if it's likely to be available soon. Presumably one could specify OOo Writer in such a future version, and suffer the consequences. poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
